University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Lessons learned from the investigation of academic WeChat official accounts

Xu, Shenmeng; Hemminger, Bradley M.

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Title
Lessons learned from the investigation of academic WeChat official accounts
Author(s)
  • Xu, Shenmeng
  • Hemminger, Bradley M.
Issue Date
2019-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • WeChat
  • Scholarly communication
  • Altmetrics
  • Social media
  • China
Date of Ingest
2019-03-22T21:34:50Z
Abstract
This poster reports the issues we encountered in the investigation of WeChat Official Accounts. The goal of our study is to explore how scientific articles are communicated on WeChat, with a particular focus on whether it can be a promising source of altmetrics. WeChat is different from other influential social media tools in many aspects including the technological affordances, user groups, languages used, among others. This poster describes and discusses findings of the WeChat specific features regarding technical barriers (based on the infrastructure and affordances), language barriers (mainly between English and Chinese), cultural barriers (about commenting and sharing behavior of users), and policy barriers.
Publisher
iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2019 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Poster
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/103368
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103368
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2019 Shenmeng Xu and Bradley M. Hemminger

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